Im a newbie to Kanotix, and so downloaded the 2006 live cd used it on my desktop, and eventually installed it I liked it so much.

Have been wanting to get it on my laptop, and the live cd runs I see the splash screen, and then when the disk loads all I get on my screen is a brilliant display of colours, all jumbled, and nothing else. The card installed on the laptop is a XGI Volari-XP5 v1.09.03 ECS_532.

I have tried everything to get it to work but still no luck, can anybody help??

Thanks

mzilikazi

Titel: RE: Laptop video problem Verfasst am: 20.11.2006, 14:15 Uhr

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Not sure if you were aware that you can pass cheatcodes to the Kanotix live disc when you boot. This allows the disc to deal with specific hardware. Have a look.

Thanks for that tried all the codes and I did manage to get into a single screen, but it was still rather fuzzy and the display was big, so big I couldnt see the taskbar. Also got an error on a few which said no suitable x-server found for your card, so Im assuming that it wont be able to work.

Kano

Titel: RE: Laptop video problem Verfasst am: 21.11.2006, 02:41 Uhr

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try:

xmodule=fbdev

Aquaila

Titel: RE: Laptop video problem Verfasst am: 21.11.2006, 02:57 Uhr

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Hi Kano

have tried that to with no luck, im not going to give up on this though!!